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I'd forgotten about that one. It's hard to tell whether the design is any good from that one image. It certainly looks a lot better than the Holiday Inn Express though - which is far more deserving of the bulldozer treatment than the Wharf was.
Does anybody know whether there's been any progress on the Wharf site, by the way. I think that they got planning permission for the mixed use development that was proposed there, but it all seems to have gone very quiet.
Another development that's gone off the radar is the houses that were supposed to be being built to the north of the Wharf site.
What do people think of Atlantic Wharf as a whole? My personal opinion is that the scale of the dock is far to big and industrial to make it a particularly attractive area for housing and leisure. I'd love to see a major redevelopment in which the dock was broken up into two or three sections, traversed by roads and buildings that would effectively create three smaller docks on a much more human scale. I would also like to see some houseboats introduced, to make this a more interesting community to live in and visit. If the steelworks were to ever close then the Central Link Road could also be moved to the east of its current alignment allowing development along both sides of the dock, which would create a much more enclosed environment, which currently feels very exposed and windswept.